Japanese people

Quality:

Japanese people - East Asian ethnic group native to Japan. Article “Japanese people” in English Wikipedia has 82.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 83 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.33 points.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 6614^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7204^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7174^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Japanese people” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 24 authors in all languages (7174^th place).

Since the creation of article “Japanese people”, its content was written by 1017 registered users of English Wikipedia (6614^th place) and edited by 3017 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7204^th place).

The article is cited 3564 times in English Wikipedia (8265^th place) and cited 45957 times in all languages (3581^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2413 in May 2023
• Global: #1442 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2033 in January 2018
• Global: #4641 in January 2018

There are 50 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Catalan (ca) Japonesos		87.6822
2	English (en) Japanese people		82.3435
3	Indonesian (id) Orang Jepang		77.2302
4	Japanese (ja) 日本人		69.7334
5	Chinese (zh) 日本人		66.5371
6	Belarusian (be) Японцы		60.7898
7	Hungarian (hu) Japánok		60.6314
8	Hindi (hi) जापानी लोग		52.1641
9	French (fr) Japonais (peuple)		51.8671
10	Tamil (ta) சப்பானிய மக்கள்		51.1258

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Japanese people		9 108 522
2	Japanese (ja) 日本人		5 354 464
3	Russian (ru) Японцы		1 300 172
4	Chinese (zh) 日本人		874 767
5	Portuguese (pt) Japoneses		691 553
6	Turkish (tr) Japonlar		580 902
7	Spanish (es) Pueblo japonés		394 774
8	German (de) Japaner		281 700
9	Polish (pl) Japończycy		252 637
10	Italian (it) Giapponesi		215 809

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Japanese people		21 304
2	Japanese (ja) 日本人		11 618
3	Portuguese (pt) Japoneses		3 977
4	Russian (ru) Японцы		3 455
5	Chinese (zh) 日本人		2 572
6	Spanish (es) Pueblo japonés		1 301
7	Turkish (tr) Japonlar		966
8	Persian (fa) مردمان ژاپنی		923
9	German (de) Japaner		854
10	French (fr) Japonais (peuple)		670

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Japanese people		1 017
2	Japanese (ja) 日本人		444
3	Russian (ru) Японцы		155
4	Chinese (zh) 日本人		153
5	German (de) Japaner		147
6	Portuguese (pt) Japoneses		91
7	Italian (it) Giapponesi		78
8	Korean (ko) 일본인		78
9	French (fr) Japonais (peuple)		71
10	Spanish (es) Pueblo japonés		69

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Japanese people		6
2	Tamil (ta) சப்பானிய மக்கள்		3
3	Arabic (ar) يابانيون		2
4	Japanese (ja) 日本人		2
5	Korean (ko) 일본인		2
6	Romanian (ro) Japonezi		2
7	Catalan (ca) Japonesos		1
8	French (fr) Japonais (peuple)		1
9	Indonesian (id) Orang Jepang		1
10	Dutch (nl) Japanners		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information